SURVIVAL OF THE HORNIEST: It Wasn’t Just Neanderthals: Ancient Humans Had Sex with Other Hominids. “A new paper published by Michael Hammer from the University of Arizona, however, provides evidence that homo sapiens not only interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia, they also had sex with several species of our ancestors across the African continent. And they did it often.”

Plus this: “It’s only fully modern humans who start this thing of venturing out on the ocean where you don’t see land. Part of that is technology, of course; you have to have ships to do it. But there is also, I like to think or say, some madness there. You know? How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the Pacific before you found Easter Island? I mean, it’s ridiculous. And why do you do that?” The answer, obviously, is to get exotically laid. . . .

Related: How Our Brains Got Big And Our Penises Lost Their Spines. Which seems like a win for everyone!